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Genesis 6:9-8:22
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9 These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a (A)righteous man, [a](B)blameless in his generation. Noah (C)walked with God. 10 And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 Now the earth was (D)corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was (E)filled with violence. 12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for [b](F)humanity had corrupted its way upon the earth.

13 Then God said to Noah, “(G)The end of [c]humanity has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of [d]people; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 14 Make for yourself an ark of [e]gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and [f]cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be [g]three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16 You shall make a [h]window for the ark, and finish it to a [i]cubit from [j]the top; and put the door of the ark on the side; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 Now behold, (H)I Myself am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which there is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. 18 But I will establish (I)My covenant with you; and (J)you shall enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 (K)And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 (L)Of the birds according to their kind, and of the animals according to their kind, of every crawling thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21 As for you, take for yourself some of every (M)food that is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and them.” 22 (N)So Noah did these things; according to everything that God had commanded him, so he did.

The Flood

7 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be (O)righteous before Me in this generation. 2 You shall take [k]with you [l]seven pairs of every (P)clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female; 3 also of the birds of the sky, [m]seven pairs, male and female, to keep their [n]offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after (Q)seven more days, I will send rain on the earth for (R)forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe out from the face of the land (S)every living thing that I have made.” 5 So (T)Noah acted in accordance with everything that the Lord had commanded him.

6 Now Noah was (U)six hundred years old when the flood of water [o]came upon the earth. 7 Then (V)Noah and his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the waters of the flood. 8 (W)Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that crawls on the ground, 9 they all went into the ark to Noah [p]by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 Now it came about after (X)the seven days, that the waters of the flood [q]came upon the earth. 11 In the (Y)six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all (Z)the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the [r]floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 (AA)The rain [s]fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 On this very same day (AB)Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, 14 they and every animal according to its kind, and all the livestock according to [t]their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, [u]all sorts of birds. 15 So they went into the ark to Noah, (AC)by twos of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the Lord closed the door behind him.

17 Then the flood [v]came upon the earth for (AD)forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. 18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark [w]floated on the [x]surface of the water. 19 And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains [y]everywhere under the heavens were covered. 20 The water prevailed [z]fifteen cubits higher, (AE)and the mountains were covered. 21 So (AF)all [aa]creatures that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, animals, and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; 22 of all that was on the dry land, all (AG)in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. 23 So He wiped out [ab]every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from mankind to animals, to crawling things, and the birds of the sky, and they were wiped out from the earth; and only (AH)Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. 24 (AI)The water prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.

The Flood Subsides

8 But (AJ)God remembered Noah and all the animals and all the livestock that were with him in the ark; and (AK)God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2 Also (AL)the fountains of the deep and the [ac]floodgates of the sky were closed, and (AM)the rain from the sky was restrained; 3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end (AN)of 150 days the water decreased. 4 Then in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, (AO)the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the (AP)window of the ark which he had made; 7 and he sent out a raven, and it [ad]flew here and there until the water was dried up [ae]from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a [af]dove, to see if the water was low on the [ag]surface of the land; 9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him in the ark, for the water was on the [ah]surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took it, and brought it into the ark to himself. 10 So he waited another seven days longer; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And the dove came to him in [ai]the evening, and behold, in its [aj]beak was a fresh olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was low on the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days longer, and sent out (AQ)the dove; but it did not return to him again.

13 Now it came about in the (AR)six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up [ak]from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the [al]surface of the ground had dried up. 14 And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every crawling thing that crawls on the earth, that they may [am](AS)breed abundantly on the earth, and (AT)be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every crawling thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out [an]by their families from the ark.

20 Then Noah built (AU)an altar to the Lord, and took some of every kind of (AV)clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered (AW)burnt offerings on the altar. 21 The Lord (AX)smelled the soothing aroma, and the Lord said [ao]to Himself, “I will never again (AY)curse the ground on account of man, for (AZ)the [ap]intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; (BA)and I will never again [aq]destroy every living thing, as I have done.

22 While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
(BB)Summer and winter,
And (BC)day and night
Shall not cease.”

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:9 Lit complete, perfect; or having integrity
  2. Genesis 6:12 Lit all flesh
  3. Genesis 6:13 Lit all flesh
  4. Genesis 6:13 Lit them
  5. Genesis 6:14 I.e., Unknown species of tree
  6. Genesis 6:14 Or pitch
  7. Genesis 6:15 About 450 ft. long, 75 ft. wide, and 45 ft. high or 135 m, 23 m, and 14 m
  8. Genesis 6:16 Or roof
  9. Genesis 6:16 One cubit is about 18 in. or 45 cm
  10. Genesis 6:16 Lit above
  11. Genesis 7:2 Lit to
  12. Genesis 7:2 Lit seven seven
  13. Genesis 7:3 Lit seven seven
  14. Genesis 7:3 Lit seed
  15. Genesis 7:6 Lit was
  16. Genesis 7:9 Lit two two
  17. Genesis 7:10 Lit were
  18. Genesis 7:11 Or windows of the heavens
  19. Genesis 7:12 Lit was
  20. Genesis 7:14 Lit its
  21. Genesis 7:14 Lit every bird, every wing
  22. Genesis 7:17 Lit was
  23. Genesis 7:18 Lit went
  24. Genesis 7:18 Lit face
  25. Genesis 7:19 Lit which were under all the heavens
  26. Genesis 7:20 About 23 ft. or 6.7 m
  27. Genesis 7:21 Lit flesh
  28. Genesis 7:23 Lit all existence
  29. Genesis 8:2 Or windows of the heavens
  30. Genesis 8:7 Lit went out, going and returning
  31. Genesis 8:7 Lit from upon
  32. Genesis 8:8 Lit dove from him
  33. Genesis 8:8 Lit face
  34. Genesis 8:9 Lit face
  35. Genesis 8:11 Lit the time of evening
  36. Genesis 8:11 Lit mouth
  37. Genesis 8:13 Lit from upon
  38. Genesis 8:13 Lit face
  39. Genesis 8:17 Or swarm
  40. Genesis 8:19 Or according to their kind
  41. Genesis 8:21 Lit to His heart
  42. Genesis 8:21 Or inclination
  43. Genesis 8:21 Lit strike
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Genesis 6:9-8:22
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Noah and the Flood

9 This is the account(A) of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless(B) among the people of his time,(C) and he walked faithfully with God.(D) 10 Noah had three sons: Shem,(E) Ham and Japheth.(F)

11 Now the earth was corrupt(G) in God’s sight and was full of violence.(H) 12 God saw how corrupt(I) the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.(J) 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy(K) both them and the earth.(L) 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood;(M) make rooms in it and coat it with pitch(N) inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all around.[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters(O) on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.(P) 18 But I will establish my covenant with you,(Q) and you will enter the ark(R)—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.(S) 20 Two(T) of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind(U) of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.(V) 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.(W)

7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family,(X) because I have found you righteous(Y) in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean(Z) animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive(AA) throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain(AB) on the earth(AC) for forty days(AD) and forty nights,(AE) and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.(AF)”

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.(AG)

6 Noah was six hundred years old(AH) when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark(AI) to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Pairs of clean and unclean(AJ) animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, 9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.(AK) 10 And after the seven days(AL) the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,(AM) on the seventeenth day of the second month(AN)—on that day all the springs of the great deep(AO) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens(AP) were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(AQ)

13 On that very day Noah and his sons,(AR) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.(AS) 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,(AT) everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.(AU) 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.(AV) Then the Lord shut him in.

17 For forty days(AW) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.(AX) 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.[e][f] (AY) 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.(AZ) 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life(BA) in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.(BB) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.(BC)

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.(BD)

8 But God remembered(BE) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,(BF) and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens(BG) had been closed, and the rain(BH) had stopped falling from the sky. 3 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days(BI) the water had gone down, 4 and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month(BJ) the ark came to rest on the mountains(BK) of Ararat.(BL) 5 The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

6 After forty days(BM) Noah opened a window he had made in the ark 7 and sent out a raven,(BN) and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.(BO) 8 Then he sent out a dove(BP) to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. 9 But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. 11 When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.(BQ) 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year,(BR) the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month(BS) the earth was completely dry.

15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.(BT) 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”(BU)

18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.(BV) 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord(BW) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean(BX) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings(BY) on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma(BZ) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground(CA) because of humans, even though[g] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.(CB) And never again will I destroy(CC) all living creatures,(CD) as I have done.

22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,(CE)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,(CF)
day and night
will never cease.”(CG)

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Genesis 6:15 That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
  3. Genesis 6:16 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
  4. Genesis 6:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  5. Genesis 7:20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters
  6. Genesis 7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered
  7. Genesis 8:21 Or humans, for
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